Resources
ABT Counseling is committed to your good mental health. You’ll find below recent articles posted by our staff on mental health topics such as marriage and family, anxiety, depression, and addiction.
Like this stream at Roaring Run Furnace, getting the right information about your healthcare situation offers life. Keep checking back here often for updated articles that may complement your counselor’s practical advice.
What Is OBOT?
Office-Based Opioid Treatment Programs – also called OBOTs – are a type of outpatient addiction treatment designed for people living with opioid use disorder (OUD). OBOTS are classified under the general umbrella of Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT), which is the...
OBOT Works. Just ask Vinnie.
Recovery from heroin is difficult. But with the right team of professionals and friends or family around you, it works. ABT Resident Counselor Vinnie Dabney is a recovering addict. He did heroin for 30 years. “Through my own process of healing and getting better, I...
Meet Vinnie Dabney
ABT's Vinnie Dabney has a unique perspective as a therapist. He is a recovering addict. Vinnie specializes in working with patients with the following: Borderline Personality disorder, trauma, substance abuse, self-harm and low self-esteem, as well as patients...
Art Therapy Can Help When Words are Missing
Have you ever met with a therapist or counselor and you just couldn't express with words what was in your heart and on your mind? Maybe it had to do with the pain associated with loss and grief? Or the hurt from the abuse? ABT's Resident Counselor Maria Williams is...
Meet Maria Williams
ABT Counseling has five offices throughout Southwest Virginia. In the Salem Office, Resident Counselor Maria Williams uses art therapy to help patients work through various life issues, including loss and grief. For more info about Maria, or to schedule an...
Feeling Anxious? Here’s Five Things to do Right Now
Rachel Schallon is a Licensed Family Counselor at ABT Counseling. She sees all kinds of patients but has a special place in her heart for teenaged girls. Whether facing issues of self-esteem, depression, or anxiety, Rachel recommends a simple mental exercise to...